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    (Introduction) “The Lottery‚” a short story by Shirley Jackson‚ is about a woman who has been selected for sacrifice by a lottery drawing. Tessie Hutchinson‚ and the rest of her town‚ are unfeeling about how the annual sacrifice affects the selected. However‚ they carry on with their tradition year after year‚ with no intent to make changes to meet modern day morals and needs. “The Lottery” is about blindly following tradition‚ the awareness of how cruel a practice sacrificing is‚ and how one’s mindset

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    something that really shocked me at the beginning of the story‚ after reading the Lottery written by American famous female author Sherley Jackson. In the story‚ she depicts a small village in the mountain and the annual antiquated ritual there; every year‚ people are gathered at the square‚ and pick the lottery. It is a ritual for praying; it is not a ritual for praying. From the different word choices and settings Jackson used in the story‚ I can discover its astonish but approachable plots and ending

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    names for the type of fiction and they are literary and commercial fiction. Literary Fiction provides psychological thinking and a general description of the world whereas Commercial Fiction involves entertainment and happy endings. Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” is a short story that shows how internal scars affect the way people develops. The story is dark‚ but in a sad way. A group of kids find something to do since they enjoy committing minor non harmful crimes. The leader of their gang

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    Tasha Petitlouis ENC1102 Response Paper #1 revised February 11‚ 2014 What Is Shirley Jackson’s message in “The LotteryShirley Jackson’s message in “The Lottery” would happen to be a common case of irony‚ for the unexpected happens to the main character Tessie Hutchinson. The setting is a small unknown village‚ which participates in a gruesome murder every year. Each June 27th a lottery is hosted‚ and a single individual’s fate is chosen by a small piece of paper with a black dot in the center

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    the surface may not always be what it really is. Things are not always what they seem. According to Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery‚ small town America is a place of traditional gender roles and where people refuse to change. This refusal to change results in the concept

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    short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene collides with good and evil with the surrounds full of destruction. Many scholars have tried to decipher the mean behind this story and have all agreed that it is the best story that Green has ever written. With the knowing and shocking outcomes readers will ponder the nature of what is read. "Graham Greene portrays a world in transition‚ a society moving away from respect for culture toward a delight in chaos."(Clarke 1) Graham Greene not only believes

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    sympathy in the audience. I therefore used the characters‚ themes and plot found in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery as the basis of my broadcast element because this text is a disquieting critique on the violence and inhumanity we hear about on a perpetual basis that evokes emotion in nearly everyone who reads it. In my feature story‚ I describe the barbaric traditions of a seemingly convivial town where a lottery is conducted on an annual basis. The villagers are required to gather in the square and

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    A lottery has always been described as a prosperous event for anybody who has ever played. However‚ it is not always as flourishing as it may seem. Shirley Jackson‚ the author of an enticing short story called The Lottery‚ proves this by displaying how a different culture views a lottery system much differently than your average person might think. This story is a riveting tale of a small village that plays an annual lottery game every summer by drawing names randomly out of an ancient black box

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    Jackson’s “The Lottery” The villagers in Jackson’s “The Lottery” are crazy and the story itself is annoying. The people in Jackson’s short story have strange religious beliefs and at times seem heartless. Shirley Jackson adds way too many specific details in the story. All of the unneeded details made this story much longer than it needed to be. Reading Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” made me want to slam my computer into a brick wall. The townspeople in Jackson’s “The Lottery” had an odd religious

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    In Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery" she argues that traditions lead to the destruction of society through desensitizing people to the gratuitous infliction of pain to their fellow villagers. For example‚ the traditions the villagers continue to follow cause them to turn against each other despite having lived with each other for nearly their entire life‚ “Mrs. Graves said‚’ All of us took the same chance.’ ’There is Don and Eva‚’ Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. ’Make them take their chance!’" Since the lottery

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